The desert of Chile is rarely visited and now it has become a military restricted area for the Ming army.

The craftsman from the Gunpowder Department of the Beiyang Military Bureau of the Ming Dynasty took a boat to cross the ocean and landed in Chile, climbing over the barren coastal plateau and entering this devastated desert, as if he had entered another world.

In a world with nothing, every Ming people who arrived here for the first time would ask questions. How could it be so dry even if it was clearly adjacent to the Great East Ocean coast?

The local indigenous people said that the last time it rained was in the fourth year of Longqing according to the Ming calendar, and no more rain has occurred here since then.

If a person pours the water in the kettle clean, the water stains left at the bottom of the kettle will be more rainy than this year.

The desert is endless, and even cactus is unwilling to stay here for too long. From a distance, the top of the mountain looks like snow covered with year-round snow. The Beiyang Banner Army's expedition team initially thought that they could get ice on the mountain as drinking water. Only after climbing up did they realize that the top of the mountain was not covered with snow but salt mines.

Even the most loyal and brave military craftsman will give up in his heart when he first appreciates its unique landform that causes the desert and soil to dry and shatter. Even the most arrogant people will doubt whether they can withstand the test of heaven and earth.

Shao Tingda, the general of the Governor's Office of the former Army of the Eastern Army, has led the banner army to continue to develop in this desert for twenty-seven months.

During the day, he and his troops wore bird guns as their staff, wore a single-clothed cloak and walked from one oasis to another, and measured the desert road with the steps between their legs. At night, his troops wore thick cotton jackets and covered cotton armor, curled up in the stone house covered by special cotton tents and oasis waiting for another dawn.

It is not difficult to find a nitrate mine here. In any place where you think that water should be raised when you dig a well, open the soil layer. If you are lucky, just dig two feet apart, and the nitrate mined layer buried underground will be exposed. Even if you are not lucky, they will only dig an eight-foot well for the deepest time.

This is a world composed of salt, soil and nitrogen.

The troops of the Governor's Office were constantly changing. At the earliest, Shao Tingda's command had more than 13,000 troops. In addition to the three important cities and ports stationed, there was still a guard force that could be a field mobile force.

Later, they had no enemies here. The local people were busy surviving after experiencing the enslave disasters brought by the Spanish. No one was attentive to fight with the Ming Dynasty. On the contrary, they were extremely happy with the arrival of the Ming army - because they brought different food and more technology.

Unlike the Spanish's concerns, the Ming army also cared about copper, gold, iron ore and silver ore, but compared with hardware, the most prominent feature of the Ming army was that it brought the concept that food was the most important thing for the people, and they were ashamed of people and couldn't eat enough.

But the indigenous people still suspected that after experiencing the nightmarish enslavement of the Spanish, they were reluctant to believe that the priests holding scriptures forced them to live in houses and were easy to manage, forcing them to breed animals for the Spanish, and forced them to form teams to work for forced labor.

Now it seems that everything is no different. The bald monk was replaced by a county magistrate wearing a black hat. He also wanted them to live in a house, to raise animals, to farm land, and to make them baojia.

They feared the swords and guns of the Ming Dynasty, but from the bottom of their hearts they thought that all this had not changed at all, but the one who rode on his head had been replaced by someone who looked a little similar to them.

The Spanish monks still wandered on this land said that the Ming people were different from the natives. They were whiter than you and whiter than us. They were white.

But the Ming men living in Liercheng said that Westerners fartted, and I was a man of the Ming Dynasty with yellow skin, black hair, and they were the white people who were pickled.

In doubt, the natives saw that extensive agricultural and animal husbandry technology had been improved on a large scale. The port, which was formerly called Santiago, has now been renamed by Shao Tingda, built a hundred-material fishing boat for coastal fishermen to go out to sea to fish. The city made exquisite clothes and shoes, selling tougher fishing nets and faster and larger boats than canoes.

The Ming people said that this would allow everyone to get more food and become rich quickly.

But three generations of native people who had never owned personal property rights did not know what it meant to be rich. When the Spaniards left, the entire land fell to a standstill, and the superstructure collapsed, leaving the indigenous people who were born to serve the Western Barbarians at a loss.

Shao Tingda could force them to enter the Chinese literature school to learn words and conversation, but he could not force them to correct the uneasiness and inferiority deep in his soul.

It was not until this moment that General Manghu suddenly recalled the true meaning of Chen Mu's early years saying that any nation would become stupid and numb for hundreds of years... The native people of Chile were not enslaved for hundreds of years, but for only a few decades, they became like this.

Even the Ming merchants in the city sold clothes and shoes, fishing nets and fishing boats, and the local people didn't know how to buy them; if they knew how to buy and wanted to buy them, they would have no wealth.

So they hired proletarian local people to build bridges and roads. People would be curious about why the Ming army was so curious. There were roads in Chile, whether they stepped on them with their feet in the past, repaired them later, or roads built by the Spanish during the time, but the Ming army said that the road was not wide enough or flat enough. More importantly, the local people needed this salary.

"Is the road construction to make us earn money?"

"No, not only to make you earn wages, but to have a good path, you can sell Li Ercheng's things to other places and make wealth to make your family live a good life, but also help more people who live a bad life."

"Cargoons, sold to other places, just like the Spanish merchants used to be?"

"Yes, make money like the Western Yi, but don't make money like they do to wear a ring of ten fingers for yourself. If you are poor, you must find a way to keep yourself alive. If you are rich, you must not forget to help the world."

"Then why do we call them Western, Euroi, not Spanish, European? Because they are white?"

"Haha, in fact, the Ming Dynasty doesn't care what color others grow into, nor does it care whether it is white or yellow. We don't care about the noble color, and the color is noble because of our existence. The Grand Marshal said that we were born white and called ourselves yellow, just because the people of the Ming Dynasty were all descendants of Yan and Huang, and the word "yellow" was just the word "yellow" in it."

"As far as I am concerned, I am just because I don't want to be in the same category as them. They are the same. They do not be humble because of calling themselves white people. Look at the sufferings suffered by many tribes. Whites are humble because of their similarities and beasts. They call them barbarians, and they have regarded them as humans."
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